Toggle display of all maps

[olibclarke@…]

Oliver wants to be able to hide all maps, then later reshow just the maps that were hidden.

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From: Oliver Clarke
Subject: Two more ChimeraX suggestions
Date: February 22, 2016 at 12:58:22 PM PST
To: Tom Goddard

Hi Tom, a couple of suggestions that occured to me while using Chimera to prepare some figures:

1: A way to globally toggle all maps off/on would be really, really handy. This is something I really miss - having to turn them on/off one by one in the model panel or volume viewer is a pain, and often I want to just quickly undisplay whatever maps I have displayed to either select something or just to more clearly see what is going on in that region of the model. Perhaps an additional modal switch next to the selection mode switch (A/I/R/S) might do the trick? Something that cycles between map display, coordinate display or both, without interfering with whatever subset of models/maps I have listed as displayed/unidsplayed.

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Cheers,
Oli.

[Tom Goddard]

One way to make this work would be a button that hides all the displayed maps and remembers which got hidden. Another button then shows the ones that were hidden. The main trouble is where to put such a button -- it is not commonly enough needed to give it a prominent location on the user interface, maybe it would be part of a more advanced set of map controls, or somehow configurable as a preference setting to show these buttons.

There is a keyboard shortcut "at" (active toggle) like this in Chimera 1 for controlling which maps are active (i.e. movable). It makes all inactive maps active and remembers which were inactive. So when you use "at" again it inactivates the remembered set of models.

[olibclarke@…]

Well, there are currently preference settings to show/hide the
display/activate model settings and the selection mode switcher at the
bottom of the UI, perhaps it could be treated similarly? I suspect it might
actually get used fairly frequently if it were available. It would also
largely solve the "selecting things under a map" issue.

Cheers,
Oli

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